If you want to get confident cooking seafood at home, welcome. I'm Christina, founder of Weekday Pescatarian, and I'm so glad you're here.
More than 400 tested recipes live on this site, and in 2026 Feedspot ranked Weekday Pescatarian the #1 pescatarian food blog. Which is a nice way of saying the recipes work.
Even for confident home cooks, buying and preparing seafood can be the final frontier of their cooking journey. It was for me!
Let me show you what I've learned through my own evolution from meat-and-potatoes queen to eating seafood every single week.
Why I became a Weekday Pescatarian
In 2021 I watched an old TED Talk from Graham Hill about his decision to transition to a weekday vegetarian diet.
I share his view that so many lifestyle diets present a binary choice that requires a high level of commitment and restriction. Can I swear off birria tacos forever? Have I already eaten my last fried chicken sandwich?
The second driving factor came when my husband and I moved to Lisbon in 2021. We had long contemplated living in Europe, and the middle of a global pandemic seemed as good a time as any to make the leap.
After nine months in the city center, we moved 15 miles outside Lisbon to the seaside village of Cascais. For the first time in my life, I was living on the ocean with daily access to fresh fish. I was already an adventurous eater and a confident cook, but these life changes presented a new opportunity.
And so, Weekday Pescatarian was born.
My goal was simple: get confident cooking seafood at home, and make more of it every week.
I’m not fanatical about the calendar. I assume Thanksgiving will continue to fall on the last Thursday in November. And you better believe my plate will include turkey. Practicing a weekday pescatarian lifestyle gives me the flexibility to meet my goals without the baggage of restriction.
About me:
I got my start in food as a restaurant trainer, which is where I learned that a lot of restaurant technique doesn't work in a home kitchen. Then I spent a few years as a local reporter, putting my curiosity to good use, followed by the better part of two decades as a marketing and communications consultant.
I've traveled to 39 countries and taken culinary courses all over the world.
- French Sauce Class in Paris (happiest day of my life?)
- Bacalhau Class in Lisbon
- Authentic Tagine Class in Marrakesh
- Croissant-making in France
- Portuguese Feijoada Class in Porto
- Baguette Course in Paris
I learned to make Eastern European specialties standing at my grandmother's and mother's sides in our midwest kitchen.
My husband's childhood in Kuala Lumpur, and our travels through the region, taught me to cook fresh and flavorful Chinese dishes, Indian seafood, and curries from across Southeast Asia.
And my life in coastal Portugal has opened up a world of new seafood dishes, fish varieties and cooking techniques.
I can't wait to share them all with you.
Featured On
Since launching Weekday Pescatarian in 2022, my recipes and seafood expertise have been featured on CNN Health, MSN, Southwest Georgia Magazine, Eat Blog Talk Podcast, Kim and Kalee, Eat, Shop, Waste Not Podcast, A Cultivated Nest, Pip and Ebby, Savoring the Good, This Healthy Table, and more.
Cooking with Seafood: Making the most of grocery store finds
If you live in a coastal region or a big city, you'll likely have access to fresh, local fish like I do today. But I spent most of my life in the middle of the middle of the United States, far from the nearest ocean.
So most of my recipes are built around fish you'll find in the freezer of your local grocery store. If you're near a Whole Foods or a fresh fish market, you have even more options.
And if your budget supports seafood delivery, my friends at Sizzlefish and Sena Sea will drop wild-caught Alaskan seafood on your doorstep any day of the week.
No matter where you live, I can help you put easy and impressive seafood on your dinner table.
Start with one pan.
You don't need a $500 pan to cook great fish. The one in your cabinet will probably do just fine, and I'll prove it. My One-Pan Seafood Dinners are exactly what they sound like: real seafood dinners, one pan, no special equipment and nothing fancy to clean up after.
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And if you have questions, I'd love to hear from you. Find me at [email protected] or over on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and YouTube.
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